Montclair State "In the News:" Opinion: For nation's grads, a degree of debt (The Record)

Debts resulting from college are a high and rising burden that now totals more than $1 trillion, by one official estimate.

Seddik Meziani, chairman of the department of economics and finance at Montclair
State, is troubled by statistics showing that 37 million
Americans — 15 percent of the population — have outstanding student
debt.

“With the average debt at graduation standing at a lofty
$25,250 and grim job prospects in this economy,” Meziani said, “there
are concerns that this younger generation will have an especially
difficult time paying down their debt.”